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Hornblum, Allen M.

Title The invisible Harry Gold : the man who gave the Soviets the atom bomb / Allen M. Hornblum.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	B GOLD, HARRY	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction	B GOLD	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Biographies	BIOG GOLD, HARRY	Check Shelf

Description	xiv, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-434) and index.
Contents	pt. 1. The spy -- South Philadelphia -- A debt repaid -- The novice spy -- The evolution of a secret agent -- Semenov, Slack, and Brothman -- Dr. Klaus Fuchs -- The Los Alamos papers -- The postwar years -- The hunt for Raymond -- The fatal words -- pt. 2. The prisoner -- Conversion -- To make amends -- Prisoner 19312-NE -- State of mind -- The campaign for parole -- Return -- Epilogue.
Summary	A gripping account of the man who gave the USSR the plans for the atom bomb. The subject of the most intensive public manhunt in the history of the FBI, Gold was arrested in May 1950. His confession revealed scores of contacts, and his testimony in the trial of the Rosenbergs proved pivotal.
Subject	Gold, Harry.
	Spies -- United States -- Biography.
	Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
	Prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
	Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History.
	Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
	Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
	Soviet Union -- Relations -- United States.
	United States -- Relations -- Soviet Union.
ISBN	9780300156768 cloth alkaline paper
	0300156766 cloth alkaline paper

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